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With any matt varnish you're supposed to stir or shake it really thoroughly to ensure the matting agent is evenly distributed throughout the liquid, if you didn't do that then it's worth trying but have to say my experience with the Vallejo product was similar to yours.Yes, pretty much - even one of middling quality should take the shine down a few steps. If we imagine surface gloss as a 7-step scale from wet-look gloss at 7 to completely matt at 0 you should have no trouble going from a 5 or 6 down to a 3.Since you have some X-21 you can add this to the thinned Vallejo varnish, should be no trouble to improve on the stuff straight from the bottle!Dullcote works brilliantly (could easily go from a 6 to a 1 on the above scale for example) but it's relatively expensive and not as easy to get as some alternatives. Plus it's reduced with a solvent, which you may prefer not to airbrush with. If you want a similar product that's diluted with water Testors also make an acrylic matt overcoat in the ModelMaster range, seen the results of this in many magazine articles and it's good stuff and one or two of the authors say the results are as good as Dullcote's.Various modellers in the UK swear by one or two of the matt varnishes made for artists so they're worth considering also. There are versions thinned with mineral spirits as well as acrylic ones which are water-thinned. Along the same lines it might even be worth trying a matt polyurethane from the hardware store, which is obviously going to work out the cheapest.Einion
With any matt varnish you're supposed to stir or shake it really thoroughly to ensure the matting agent is evenly distributed throughout the liquid, if you didn't do that then it's worth trying but have to say my experience with the Vallejo product was similar to yours.
Yes, pretty much - even one of middling quality should take the shine down a few steps. If we imagine surface gloss as a 7-step scale from wet-look gloss at 7 to completely matt at 0 you should have no trouble going from a 5 or 6 down to a 3.
Since you have some X-21 you can add this to the thinned Vallejo varnish, should be no trouble to improve on the stuff straight from the bottle!
Dullcote works brilliantly (could easily go from a 6 to a 1 on the above scale for example) but it's relatively expensive and not as easy to get as some alternatives. Plus it's reduced with a solvent, which you may prefer not to airbrush with. If you want a similar product that's diluted with water Testors also make an acrylic matt overcoat in the ModelMaster range, seen the results of this in many magazine articles and it's good stuff and one or two of the authors say the results are as good as Dullcote's.
Various modellers in the UK swear by one or two of the matt varnishes made for artists so they're worth considering also. There are versions thinned with mineral spirits as well as acrylic ones which are water-thinned. Along the same lines it might even be worth trying a matt polyurethane from the hardware store, which is obviously going to work out the cheapest.
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